The Michigan State Homeless Management Information System (MSHMIS) is a single database platform that provides an unduplicated count of homeless persons living in each region of Michigan. The system also measures patterns of service use and the effectiveness of the services delivered, providing the ability to assess progress across programs and regions. It was developed to improve consistency of reporting among Michigan’s Continuum of Care (CoC) network and includes information from all the service organizations in each region, a total of 524 organizations statewide.

This site offers a collection of interactive games intended to let students explore social science concepts and play games such as The Prisoner's Dilemna, Matching Pennies, Stag Hunt, and other strategic social interaction games. The games are configured by the instructor and played as a class, small group, or individual on smart phones, tablets, or computers. Presently (August, 2013), a free semester trial membership is offered to faculty. this allows the instructor to set up a class with this tool and use it for the term.

These resources range from historical population data, building on prior work done to portray historical changes in the growth and redistribution of the U.S. population to topics that expand beyond decennial census data to include the full breadth of Census Bureau data sets and subject areas, from household and family dynamics, to migration and geographic mobility, to economic indicators. The visualized data are in various formats from interesting charts, to infographics, to interactive tables and charts.

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) offers interactive maps and charts to see how much aid is provided by Development Assistance Committee members to recipient countries and in which sectors.

Data from U.S. government sources show a mixed picture of the racial and ethnic gaps among whites, blacks, Asians and Hispanics over the past several decades. We’ve tracked and categorized the areas where the white-black racial gap has narrowed, widened or remained roughly the same. Hispanic and Asian data is also included in years available.